Rehab Critical Mass for accessible society organised for Sunday

Budapest (MTI) – Rehab Critical Mass, a march organised for the third year to call attention to the importance of an accessible society, will be held in Budapest this Sunday.

The aim of the march is to bring visibility and strengthen support and lobbying power for disabled people in Hungary.

In its first year in 2014, about 3,000 attended the march. This rose to 6,000 last year and organisers expect even more people to turn up this year, Judit Surányi, one of the main organisers, told public news channel M1 on Monday. When the march was first held two years ago it was the first of its kind in the world, she said.

A big problem for people with physical disabilities or sight, hearing, speech or mental impairments is a lack of negotiating power, Surányi said. The Rehab Critical Mass event wants to create solidarity in society to serve accessibility needs, which not only help disabled people but also others like mothers with small children or the elderly, she added.

The march will start out at Clark Ádám square on Sunday afternoon and pass through Chain Bridge to end up in Erzsebet Square on the eastern side of the city.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters